Check out the wee glimmer of a change in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” saga, buried in Thursday’s press conference by Obama mouthpiece Robert Gibbs. The last we heard, the Obama Administration was moving quietly to limit enforcement of the policy — but it wasn’t in any rush to change the policy. And, as Comrade Lochhead told us earlier this month, it looked like momentum to change DNDT was waning. Now? Judging what was said Thursday, sounds like plans are moving along faster than previously disclosed, albeit on the down low. Hmm…..

Q: “So you had said that the President is working with the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ but earlier this week the Pentagon said that the conversations were ‘initial’ and that there is ‘no sense of any immediate developments in the offing on efforts to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.” So I wanted to give you a chance to correct the Pentagon on that. And I have two other questions. What other policies are there —

MR. GIBBS: “If you ask like that you’re going to get bumped up to, like, the first row. (Laughter.) Let me address the first question because, if I’m not mistaken, the Pentagon did correct that statement on efforts regarding the reform on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.'”